brûles
\bʁyl\
The verdict
“brûles” is uncommon French (frequency #63,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,581
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brûler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brules · brûles · French
brûles · rank #63,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,581
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bumper
Nearest frequency peer: bumper (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « brûles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- briseur
briseur
36,424 corpus weight
- Brits
Brits
36,423 corpus weight
- bruine
bruine
36,422 corpus weight
- brûles
brûles
36,420 corpus weight
- bumper
bumper
36,419 corpus weight
- Burrell
Burrell
36,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brûles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brûles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brûles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brûles is uncommon French at frequency #63,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brûles, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brûles, spelled B-R-Û-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brûler.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brûler.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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